Weckiai Rannila game 4.
Carrie Klaus — a French professor from Greencastle, Indiana
Matthew Smith — a paramedic from New York, New York
Weckiai Rannila — an engineer from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weckiai | $5,800 | $10,000 | $19,600 |
$12,799
2nd place: $3,000 |
$21,400
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matthew | $1,000 | $2,800 | $13,200 |
$26,400
New champion: $26,400 |
$10,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Carrie | $2,000 | $3,000 | $10,600 |
$1,600
3rd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
12 R, 0 W |
| IN THE 19th CENTURY | STATE MOTTOES | A FLORAL CATEGORY | EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE | RECORDED AT ABBEY ROAD | HOMOPHONES |
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$200
[24]
It traces its roots to the founding of the International Committee for the Relief of the Wounded in 1863
the Red Cross
Weckiai
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$200
[30]
In the 1950s a 12-year-old boy went to Columbus & got this state's lawmakers to adopt "With God All Things Are Possible"
Ohio
Weckiai
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$200
[29]
Van Gogh painted 5 large canvases of these flowers using 3 chrome yellows & yellow ochre
sunflowers
Carrie
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$200
[26]
These 2 adjectives describe the night in the much-parodied opening line of the 1830 novel "Paul Clifford"
dark & stormy
Weckiai
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$200
[22]
Music for this 1981 film debut of Indiana Jones was done at Abbey Road; the score is iconic, timeless & too much money for us to play
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Weckiai
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$200
[12]
To stimulate an appetite & to dampen
whet/wet
Weckiai
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$400
[23]
In 1873 this shipping magnate donated $1 million to endow a Nashville university; guess who the university is named for
Vanderbilt
Carrie
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$400
[28]
In 2006, 50 years after the United States made it official, Florida made it the state motto as well
In God We Trust
Weckiai
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$400
[27]
Types of this flower include tiger, stargazer & Easter
a lily
Carrie
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$400
[25]
This term for a period of supposed stagnation beginning around 500 A.D. is based on a 14th century passage by Petrarch
the Dark Ages
Matthew
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$400
[21]
This singer recorded "Skyfall" at Abbey Road--well, her & a 77-piece orchestra--for a planned 0:07 a.m. local premiere time
Adele
Matthew
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$400
[11]
Movement from a higher to lower elevation & religious nonconformity
descent/dissent
Carrie
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$600
[5]
At this 1805 naval battle, Lord Nelson gave his famous signal, "England expects that every man will do his duty"
Trafalgar
Weckiai
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$600
[6]
Kentucky's motto, "United We Stand" followed by these 3 words, has a lengthy history dating as far back as Aesop
Divided We Fall
Weckiai
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$600
[20]
The first U.S. envoy to Mexico introduced the U.S. to this flowering plant, now a favorite at Christmas
poinsettia
Weckiai
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$600
[17]
These ancient texts discovered in 1947 contain an account of an impending war between the Sons of Light & the Sons of Darkness
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Weckiai
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$600
[14]
He found Abbey Road "Perfect" as he sang, "I whispered underneath my breath but you heard it, darling, you look perfect tonight"
Ed Sheeran
Weckiai
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$600
[10]
A racing boat propelled manually & a cranium
a scull/skull
Carrie
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DD
$1,000
[3]
Spain's second queen of this name ruled from 1833 until 1868, when a revolution forced her into exile
Isabel (Isabella II)
Weckiai
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$800
[1]
L'etoile du Nord, or "star of the north", isn't the motto of Alaska but this state that's the northernmost of the lower 48
Minnesota
Weckiai
Matthew
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$800
[19]
Head to the end of the alphabet for these flowers that come in shapes called beehive, button & cactus
zinnia
Weckiai
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$800
[15]
Often called the first dark horse president, this 11th chief executive waged the Mexican War & added vast new territory to the USA
James K. Polk
Weckiai
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$800
[7]
In 1967 Pink Floyd came over from Studio 3 to watch the Beatles work on a tune in Studio 2 about this "lovely" lady
Rita
Matthew
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$800
[9]
A device in scientific instruments & a vessel used in church
sensor/censer
Weckiai
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$1,000
[4]
The Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 ended the first of these wars instigated by British drug dealers
the Opium Wars
Matthew
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$1,000
[2]
Tennessee's motto has the names of these 2 cabinet departments, one about sowing & one about selling
Agriculture & Commerce
Weckiai
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$1,000
[18]
The name of this can mean an overly sympathetic person
a bleeding heart
Matthew
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$1,000
[16]
In 1933 astronomer Fritz Zwicky posited the existence of this, detected only by its gravitational effects
dark matter
Weckiai
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$1,000
[13]
In 2018, this band, whose name is a year that's not 2018, hit Abbey Road to fill out "A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships"
The 1975
Weckiai
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$1,000
[8]
A small rabbit relative of the mountains & a unit of type size
pika/pica
Carrie
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| COMBAT PILOTS | THE PLOT SICKENS | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS | 4-LETTER VERBS | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s |
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$400
[29]
Future U.S. senator Martha McSallywas the first woman to command a U.S. combat aviation unit, the 354th Fighter one of these
Squadron
Weckiai
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$400
[13]
"The Red Death" created by this 19th century author was a disease that killed people a half-hour from onset
Edgar Allan Poe
Weckiai
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$400
[7]
This author followed 1897's "The Invisible Man" with 1898's "The War of the Worlds"
H.G. Wells
Carrie
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$400
[24]
Cook something in a microwave or bomb with atomic weapons
nuke
Matthew
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$400
[23]
In 2024 this university in Durham, North Carolina celebrated its centennial
Duke
Carrie
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$400
[30]
"Maidenform" & "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency" were episodes of this Emmy-winning drama
Mad Men
Matthew
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$1,200
[27]
20/10 eyesight helped this Red Sox outfielder win batting titles & survive flying nearly 40 combat missions in Korea
Ted Williams
Matthew
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$800
[12]
In "Little Women", the hands of this character "seemed too feeble to hold even the rosy little shells they had been collecting"
Beth
Carrie
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$800
[6]
He gave Jenny Lind the nickname "The Swedish Nightingale" & risked his fortune to bring her to the U.S. for a tour
P.T. Barnum
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$800
[18]
To roll up a flag; it can also mean to wrap a sail tightly around a pole
furl
Weckiai
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$800
[14]
In the early 17th c. plans to build this Virginia school were disrupted by the Powhatan uprising; it wasn't founded until 1693
William & Mary
Weckiai
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$800
[22]
Rowan Atkinson starred in 4 BBC alternate history comedy series as title characters with this colorfully reptilian name
Black Adder
Weckiai
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$1,600
[26]
Called the "Ace of Aces" in the jet era, Israeli pilot Giora Epstein had 17 kills, including 12 in this 1973 conflict
the Yom Kippur War
Matthew
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$1,200
[2]
The title of this Rachael Lippincott bestseller was a distance kept by 2 sick teens, cutting the recommended boundary by a foot
Five Feet Apart
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$1,200
[5]
He succeeded P.W. Botha as the president of South Africa
F.W. de Klerk
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$1,200
[9]
To catch fly balls in baseball practice
to shag
Matthew
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$1,200
[8]
Called one of the first HBCUs, Storer College was in this town, the site of a failed 1859 revolt
Harpers Ferry
Weckiai
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$1,200
[16]
The evil Dr. Claw is the perennial foe of this bumbling animated detective
Inspector Gadget
|
|
$2,000
[25]
The Red Baron trained & flew with a unit known as the Flying this that struck fear into allied pilots
the Flying Circus
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$1,600
[3]
In Philip Roth's "Nemesis", an epidemic of this viral disease hits kids in Newark in 1944 before the vaccine is developed
polio
Matthew
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$1,600
[1]
This sociologist was the first African-American person to get a Ph.D. from Harvard
(W.E.B.) Du Bois
Weckiai
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$1,600
[10]
Put a vowel before a word for a secret agent & you get this verb meaning "catch sight of"
espy
Weckiai
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DD
$2,000
[19]
This university was founded in Philadelphia, after "night owls" studied in founder Russell Conwell's church
Temple
Weckiai
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$1,600
[15]
From 2014 to 2019 Téa Leoni starred as State Department Chief Elizabeth McCord, addressed by this title title
Madam Secretary
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|
DD
$4,000
[28]
In 1944 he became one of the first to shoot down a jet fighter & 3 years later, he reached Mach 1.06
Yeager
Matthew
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$2,000
[11]
This author opens with "The Death of Ivan Ilych", then works backward as we see how Ivan got there
Tolstoy
Carrie
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$2,000
[4]
The cantata "Iphigenia in Brooklyn" was composed by Peter Schickele under this name
P.D.Q. Bach
Carrie
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$2,000
[17]
From the Latin for "praise", it means to praise or glorify as in a hymn
laud
Carrie
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$2,000
[20]
Chartered in 1901, this college in Southern California was named for a Quaker poet
Whittier
Weckiai
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$2,000
[21]
As the title indicated, Mr. Conover wrecked stuff as the host & title character of this investigative comedy series
Adam Ruins Everything
Weckiai
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Like their uniform, the flag of this group created in 1506 has stripes of red, blue & yellow, the colors of the Medici family
the Swiss Guard